+ , SIDISrtVUU@IB!&!!"&#S@B9IV69P99I !%! %! ' ")#("2;?@ 0203 %0!1&"' *- . "/ 7-.13.<13. 04---17-9.<(. 3.562173 !" !!"# "$ $"$"$ -(O<)3(. 185007((-==- 8773. "%"$$" 9 +#>: ""- $$ ; < !. /! %</=;?A;@ !" #" "#" $ %&" ' ) ' -./(.0 ing polls in the three States. The CPI(Maoist) has identified aced with squeezing geo- Jharkhand as a base area for ! Fgraphical spread and coor- training of the cadre to target dinated assault by security the elections. forces, the Maoists are prepar- Dandakaranya region of ing to unleash deadly attacks to Chhattisgarh is already an area disrupt Assembly elections in of concern for the security ()*++(,)""-#) Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh forces as the ultras had carried "*-().+*"/%+(")" and Rajasthan to boost the out 47 per cent of the total vio- 00(,1)+-,#"2# dwindling morale of the cadre. lent incidents and 84 per cent ))*3")+("-0)""$# According to Intelligence of the total deaths of security #*)(+," inputs with the Union Home forces in this region in 2017. Ministry, the Maoists have The Dandakaranya region 20#,,))*3"($)+ opened several training camps could also be used to launch ++"))2(,#(,1$+#+. to train their cadre in making attacks in the State besides )2%+(")* IEDs and carrying out ambush. Madhya Pradesh and 2 5%+(")62"0, One such camp has come up in Rajasthan. )2%2"28 Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) The outfit plans to target the fact that for the first time down from the peak of 465 in %2"2)822))("12 and another one at Gadchiroli the Assembly elections through since 1989 the number of vio- 2008 to 291 in 2017. )(89-,*)(+,)+)1))2 (Maharashtra). The Battalion spectacular attacks to raise the lent incidents has come down The number of Maoist- -0*+$(,10+##" No 1 of the People’s Liberation morale of the cadre in the wake below the 1000-mark with just affected police stations has #"2")-0"# Guerilla Army (PLGA) has of decreasing area of influence 908 incidents being reported in also come down from the peak )(,(,1*$0"/+,(, stationed about 150 trained and depleting cadre base. The 2017. The security forces of 2,023 in 2008 to just 563 in 9,,1+,522))("126 Maoists in the forest of outfit’s plans also signify that achieved kill ratio of over one 2017. However, the security ,,+)2(,*2(+#( Chhattisgarh’s South Sukma the Maoists’ leadership is against the Maoists since 2015 forces recorded a marginal 5%2"2)6 region, which is a stronghold of emboldened despite major and the trend is continuing. increase in casualties owing to *10* only about 7 night staffers pended all trains between New the Naxals. reverses in the recent past, The kill ratio depicts the num- sustained operations in the 2))#(+, +;+.)2 sleeping underneath it, said Alipore and Budge Budge, Intelligence inputs suggest including elimination of top ber Maoists killed for every core areas of Maoist influence. +0#P"()(+,-(## t least one person died and National Disaster Relief Force “until inspection of the area the CPI(Maoist) has expanded commanders at the hand of death of security personnel. But sources said there was a $2""))(+,+-);<= A26 others injured, some of jawans, adding, “two persons and further orders”. the Madhya Pradesh- security forces. Likewise, the number of reduction in the number of )(,%+(")"(,)2.+") them grievously, and five oth- are responding to our calls “I was travelling in a cab at Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh tri- The Maoists are planning police stations affected with the civilians’ death in 2017 in com- +.22))("12P""+-)2 ers feared trapped in the debris from inside the debris. They are about 4.30 pm when sudden- junction to target the upcom- the attacks in the backdrop of Maoist violence has come parison to 2016. -3$1(+, of the collapsed Kolkata flyover. referring to two four more ly the vehicle started shaking. Popularly known as people out of which they sus- Even before I was able to fig- Majherhat Bridge that flies pect two have already died.” ure out, I found going down over a suburban railway track Some injured have been along with the car. And in no ! connecting Sealdah to Budge admitted to SSKM Hospital, time a minibus, some cars, Budge caved in taking along while others were rushed to including that of a chief judge with it a loaded minibus, 5 cars, CMRI Hospital, sources said. of the City Civil Court, some several two-wheelers and some A packed office time sta- motorbikes and cycles had all " cycles on Tuesday evening. tionery local train waiting to converged at one point A tin-shed housing at least depart for Budge Budge from because the section of the 70 labourers working at the- the New Alipore Station just bridge had collapsed from the under-construction Joka-BBD about a hundred yards from middle," said Sisir Bag Metro Railways, which the accident site was saved by Chakrabarty, who despite ( ) runs a few feet from the caved a whisker, even as Railway being in trauma rescued three bridge, was largely empty with authorities immediately sus- persons. * Facebook post. This is not for the first time that Rahu’s food habit during "# ' -./(.0 religious pilgrimages has come under the BJP’s scanner. Seven tolen decades ago, two months ago, during Karnataka SIndian sculptures — elections, the BJP had not shied Mahishassurmardini (a sculp- away from targeting Rahul for ture of Goddess Durga slaying New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi’s allegedly eating chicken before the buffalo-headed demon Kailash Mansarovar Yatra visit visiting a temple. %& ' Mahishasur) dated 12th has courted controversy after Rahul is scheduled to be Century, and head of a male reports surfaced in the Nepal back in Delhi on September 12 ! deity hailing from 5th-6th media that he had eaten non- after 12-day pilgrim, party -./(.0 “He was missing since Monday "# !$$ Century AD — are now final- vegetarian food en route to the sources said. night after he had gone for !%&" ly back home. pilgrim site on August 31 when On August 31 when n yet another incident of walk. We were informed in the ' Housed in a New York’s he had stopped over at Congress chief spokesperson Ilynching, a teenager, who morning around 6 am that my Metropolitan Museum of Art Kathmandu. Randeep Surjewala had had entered a house to alleged- nephew is lying on road near P for years, the process for their A Hindi website quoting a announced that Rahul is to take ly steal valuables, was lynched street no-7. I rushed there. I ! return to India had started last waiter of Vootoo restaurant pilgrimage to Kailash by locals in northwest Delhi’s saw him lying motionless on "#$ ( " year when the museum author- where Rahul stopped for food Mansarovar, aimed at seeking Mukundpur in street no-7 in the road with his hands tied !) ities approached the Modi said the Congress chief had the blessing of Lord Shiva for the early hours of Tuesday, fol- injuries all over his body. He * O) # Government, expressing their ordered and liked the dish prosperity and success of the lowing which two people have had come to study here and #,, " desire to voluntarily return the ‘Chicken Kurkure’. Though the country, the BJP was quick to been arrested, police said. had recently started electrician ) duo ancient sculptures. restaurant has denied the report, react alleging the Congress PCR received a call about training,” said Ishtiyaq Ahmed, ) # " ! On August 10, John Guy, saying that Rahul had ordered chief wanted Chinese ambas- the incident about three hours a relative of the deceased, a res- ' the Metropolitan museum’s “pure vegetarian food items” sador to give him a ceremoni- after the ghastly act. By the ident of Mukundpur. senior curator of South and from the hotel’s menu, BJP’s al send-off and accused him of time police reached the spot, “The deceased had South East Asian Art, travelled information technology initia- holding brief for China every- the 16-year-old boy had suc- allegedly sneaked into the all the way to the Archeological tives in-charge Amit Malviya where like a “Chinese cumbed to his injuries, said house around 3.30 am and was Survey of India (ASI) head- tweeted the report link with a Spokesperson”. police, adding that four other caught by the house owner. quarters in the national Capital '" ( ) comment, “Gandhi and the BJP spokesperson Sambit accused are absconding. About six men, including two to deliver the antiquities to the * Congress are constantly playing Patra sought to know from the “Around 6.30 am, a PCR brothers, beat him in merci- agency’s officials. A senior ASI with the faith of Hindus”. Congress as to which politicians call was received about an lessly with sticks, eventually official said the Goddess Durga their antiquities, they had sus- the Chakravarteswara Temple “There has been plenty of and officials Rahul will meet incident of theft. A team leading to his death on the sculpture was illegally export- pected the two sculptures to be at Baijnath, a medieval capital enquiry from the media during his visit to China, “his rushed to the spot and found spot. A FIR under Section 304 ed out from India from stolen from here and moved in in Uttarakhand. The temple regarding the food ordered by favourite country”. Patra did not the boy lying dead. The body of the IPC has been registered Nagarjunakonda, an archaeo- their collection. was constructed in 1204,” the Rahul, president of Indian comment on Rahul’s pilgrimage, was shifted to Dr Baba Saheb at Bhalaswa Dairy police sta- logical site in western Andhra “They had sought a detail official added. National Congress during his saying it is a personal visit. Ambedkar Hospital in Rohini tion and we are also probing Pradesh.